Category: Articles

Surviving the Holidays: Slashing Away Part 2 (Dec 16 to 31) – By Baron Craze

December 16th Dismembering Christmas (2015) there’s just something about this title I find amusing, perhaps it reminds of I Dismember Mama (1972), but anyway it follows the slasher playbook, with seven high schoolers shacking up in a winter lake house while someone seeks to see their insides at any cost. I suppose this madman seeks…


Horror Topic: Gateway to Hell – By Baron Craze

Every so often, I shall take on topic in the horror genre, and this marks the first in that adventure. Often horror films name the occult theme and those recently in the found footage subgenre, the term ‘Gateway to hell” surfaces, and since the month of November recently passed, why not take on this highly…


Surviving the Holidays: Slashing Away Part 1 (Dec 1 to 15) – By Baron Craze

When this article was originally done in 2014, with the title Surviving the Holidays: Slashing and Slaying Santa Claus for the now defunct Rogue cinema site it was truly a major undertaking, and tallied slightly over 5,000 words. Therefore, it is only proper to return to this credible article, and update it vastly, and hence…


Top 10 Worst Sequels – by Vincent Mento

When I saw the post for writing for The Horror Times, I though, wait could I do that, I’m not a writer, but I think why not, I mean there’s spell check, and the red lines among other colors  brighten my white page,  but I don’t want to just review something. Now, I’ve been a…


NJ Horror Con and Film Festival #4: Screamin’ Joy – By Baron Craze

I often attend and/or am invited to many  film festivals and horror conventions, this one, marks my fourth time in this con’s attendance, the third different place, Showboat, Atlantic City, each time I go with the journalist mentality, a checklist in my head, handling the entire time as a business trip. However, this time, I…


NJ Horror Con and Film Festival Part 4: Raising Hell

Yes, kiddies, fans, and collectors, Ryan Scott Weber’s organized insanity fueled convention returns for its fourth time, those in the know, understand how well run and maintained the event has become, as its run by fans for the fans. It started back in Eaton, NJ and went to Iselin for 2-years before moving to the…


Adventures to Where the Dead Live – By Baron Craze

ROAD TRIP #1 – EVANS CITY/ MONROEVILLE MALL Well, after several years without a vacation my friends and girl decide it’s time to make a pilgrimage to  fame locations none other than Evans City Cemetery and Monroeville Mall, however what made it more incredible the trip to these locations and back, all resulting in zany…


13 Horrors on Amazon Prime – By Baron Craze

I’ll be honest for a long time I refused to partake in the VOD paid services, I focused on actual physical DVD/Blu-rays while occasional dabbling in the free online sites such as YouTube, Tubi, Hulu and countless others. However, one day laid up in bed with a cold I decided to try out Amazon Prime,…


Horror Icon: Lon Chaney Jr. – by Baron Craze

This month marks our second Horror Icon, again it’s an extension of the Baron’s Crypt Horror Icon segment, while not appearing each month it allows one to enjoy those that we cover, July 12th marks the date of Lon Chaney’s death in 1973, 45-years-ago. His life’s work showing all the vast characters he portrayed, then…


Jaws 3D (1983): 35yrs of Stinking Up the Ocean – By Baron Craze

When one hears the film title Jaws, the eyes widen, and everyone hears the legendary sounds of John Williams, it shocks audiences in 1975 and caused dreadful consequence, a loathing hatred for sharks, resulting in the slaughter of many. The studio saw dollar signs, and in 1978 Jaws 2 bit into the audiences once more,…